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Criterion
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Purposedifferent
When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen1-4 Wochen1-3 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
5-206-30 Experten2-82-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Diary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
UX researchTrackingBehavior
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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